Classes | Lectures | Readings | Homeworks | Labs | Comments | |||||
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10 | 1 Apr | 1(21) | Overview—What's Wrong with Information Theory? | HTML |
PDF
HTML |
POCI Channel | CMR articles RURO (Introduction), CAO, & ROIC. | HW 10 assigned | Properties of Joint Distributions | |
3 Apr | 2(22) | The Learning Channel | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR articles BOAC & CMPPSS (first sections). |
Classes | Lectures | Readings | Homeworks | Labs | Comments | |||||
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Week | Date | # | Topic | Outline | Slides | Video | ||||
0 | 7 Jan | 1 | Overview | HTML | PDF HTML (2025) | POCI Channel | Chaos, Scientific American, and Odds, Stanislaw Lem. | HW 0 Assigned | HW Guidelines, Typesetting Math | |
9 Jan | 2 | The Big Picture | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Chaps. 1 & 2; reference materials here and Python tutorials. | Alex Jurgens, Lecture PDF | |||
1 | 14 Jan | 3 | Example Dynamical Systems | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Secs. 5.0-5.2, 6.0-6.4, 7.0-7.3, and 9.0-9.4. |
HW 0 due, HW 1 Assigned | Prep Lab 1, Linear Algebra and ODEs, Favorite Flows | |
16 Jan | 4 | The Big, Big Picture I | HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | NDAC Chapter 3. | ||||
2 | 21 Jan | 5 | The Big, Big Picture II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | NDAC Chapter 8 and Sec. 10.0-10.4. |
HW 1 due, HW 2 Assigned | Prep Lab 2, Cellular Automata | |
23 Jan | 6 | Mechanisms of Chaos—Stable Instability | HTML |
PDF
HTML
(2025)
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POCI Channel | NDAC Secs. 12.0-12.3, 9.3, and 10.5. | ||||
3 | 28 Jan | 7 | Example Chaotic Maps (that you can analyze) | HTML | PDF HTML (2025) | POCI Channel | NDAC Sections 10.5-10.7. | HW 2 due, HW 3 Assigned |
Prep Lab 3 | |
30 Jan | 8 | Pattern Formation I: Deterministic
(Part I, Cellular Automata) |
HTML |
PDF
HTML
(2025)
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POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | ||||
4 | 4 Feb | 9 | Pattern Formation I: Deterministic
(Part II, Map Lattices) |
See above. | See above. | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | HW 3 due, HW 4 Assigned |
Prep Lab 4, 1D Map Evolution of Distributions, One- and Two-Dimensional Maps | |
6 Feb | 10 | Probability Theory of Dynamical Systems | HTML |
PDF
HTML
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POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | ||||
5 | 11 Feb | 11 | Stochastic Processes | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides. | HW 4 due, Take-home Midterm Exam on CMPy Cloud |
Symbolic Dynamics and Partitions Lab | |
13 Feb | 12 | Measurement Theory I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides and CMR Alice (Gilmore/Lefranc Chap. 2). | ||||
6 | 18 Feb | 13 | Measurement Theory II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | Lecture Slides and CMR Alice (Gilmore/Lefranc Chap. 2). | Midterm due, HW 6 Assigned |
Processes, Word Distributions, and Models; Information Theory and Communication Channels | |
25 Feb | 14 | Entropies | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Chapters 1 and 2. | ||||
7,8 | 27 Feb | 15 | Information in Processes I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Sections 5.1-5.4 and 7.1-7.7. | HW 6 due, HW 7 Assigned |
Multivariate Information Lab and Information in Processes Lab I | |
8 | 4 Mar | 16 | Information in Processes II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | EIT Chapter 4 and CMR MET. | |||
8 | 6 Mar | 17 | Memory in Processes I | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article RURO. | HW 7 due, HW 8 Assigned |
Information in Processes Lab 2 | |
9 | 11 Mar | 18 | Memory in Processes II | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article RURO. | |||
9 | 13 Mar | 19 | Information Measures and Information Diagrams | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article Yeung. | HW 8 due, Final Exam (HW 9) Assigned |
Information Diagrams Lab | |
9 | 13 Mar | 20 | Anatomy of a Bit | HTML | PDF HTML | POCI Channel | CMR article Anatomy. |